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Neha Narula is the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, where her research interests are in cryptocurrencies and distributed systems. She is also on the Board of Directors for Block and the Innovation Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Neha has given a TED talk on the future of money and was named to WIRED's list of 25 leaders shaping the next 25 years of technology. She received her PhD in computer science from MIT in 2015, where she published work on fast, scalable databases and before that was a senior software engineer at Google.
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Neha Narula is the Director of the Digital Currency Initiative, a part of the MIT Media Lab focusing on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Her current research interests are in cryptocurrencies and distributed systems. She has designed and taught three courses at MIT on cryptocurrencies and blockchains, and is a lecturer at Sloan. She is also on the Board of Directors for Block and the Innovation Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In 2018, Neha was named
to WIRED's
list of 25 leaders shaping the next 25 years of technology and
to Fortune's
Ledger 40 under 40 list. Neha has given
a TED talk on
the future of money with over two million views. She was a member
of the World Economic Forum's Global Blockchain Council and Paypal's
Blockchain, Crypto, and Digital Currency Advisory Council.
In a previous life, she helped relaunch the news aggregator Digg and
from 2003 to 2009 was a software engineer at Google. There, she was
on the team that initially designed Blobstore, a system for storing
and serving petabytes of immutable data, and she worked on Froogle, a
shopping website, and Native Client, a way to run native code securely
through a browser. She received her PhD in computer science from MIT
in 2015, where she worked on concurrency control for scalable
databases, distributed systems and web security, and she graduated
from Dartmouth College with majors in mathematics and computer
science. She and her work have appeared in TechCrunch, Blackhat,
WIRED, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, Amanpour and Company, and 60 minutes.
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